greta garbo

More Than I Thought... from shepster 191 days old

Alright, a lot to catch up on so I'll plough through them. Over a year ago I caught the last 40 mins of a 2 hour Garbo programme on the biography channel ...

Innocence, Intolerability, Infidelity & Insincerity from shepster 267 days old

Not the best bunch of films I'll ever talk about. First one I saw was Japan's submission to the oscars last year, which was the chronicle/expose of the ...

Wiping the slate clean... from shepster 533 days old

Lots of reasons why I haven't written recently, way too much to do so I'll keep it incredibly brief for everything. Caught Two for the Road on sky - ...

Getting it out of the way from shepster 579 days old

[ ... ] watch the end of a Greta Garbo programme on the biography channel) In This Our Life, a John Huston film starring Bette Davis and Olivia de ...

Triple Garbo, double foreign oscars from shepster 589 days old

[ ... ] real life couple as "Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Love" - how cheesy, but it seems it *was* sold as Anna Karenina everywhere else. It bears ...

Two trips to '37 and a couple of couples from shepster 591 days old

After seeing "the greatest performance of all time" from Garbo in Camille the other week I fell upon two of her fellow oscar nominees that year - one ...

Camilles, Comedies and a taste of Cherry from shepster 600 days old

[ ... ] raiding Lovefilm's Greta Garbo box-set and this was the last one I hadn't seen. It's an excellent role for Garbo and she gets quite brilliant when ...

A Mixed Bag... from shepster 666 days old

More lovefilm efforts to pour over. I'll do the two Garbos then get on to the rest. I saw Anna Christie and Mata Hari. The former is a very stagey adaptation ...

Naomi and Greta, 73 years apart, equally wonderful... from shepster 671 days old

Well, a few nights ago I saw The Painted Veil. Not the Greta Garbo 1934 version, I doubt I'll be able to find that anywhere, but the Naomi Watts/Ed Norton ...

Three Festival films and a butchering for the ages... from shepster 675 days old

[ ... ] this time starring Greta Garbo. I've yet to see a decent adaptation of it and sadly, I still haven't. They absolutely butchered it, tore out the ...